439 research outputs found
La recherche nord-américaine sur L’Astrée
No full textHorowitz Louise. La recherche nord-américaine sur L’Astrée. In: Cahiers de l'Association internationale des études francaises, 2008, n°60. pp. 257-269
David Horowitz: The Art of Political War
No full textA best-selling author, Horowitz made the lifelong intellectual and political journey from 1960s radical activist and leader of the New Left to crusader against what he calls the corrosive effects of leftism on culture.
During the 1960s Horowitz became the leader of the New Left, editing Ramparts magazine, an influential left-wing journal. Dissatisfied with the tragic consequences of radical policies in America and abroad, he withdrew from politics in the 1970s.
Horowitz and his partner, Peter Collier, then co-authored a series of best-selling biographies of prominent American families: The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty (1976), The Kennedys: An American Drama (1985), The Fords: An American Epic (1987) and The Roosevelts: An American Saga (1994).
In 1989, Horowitz co-authored Destructive Generations: Second Thoughts About the Sixties, which chronicled the legacy of the New Left and its effects on American politics and culture. His autobiography, Radical Son (1987), recounts his political journey, while his latest book, The Politics of Bad Faith, focuses on leftism and its socialist themes.
Horowitz has earned numerous awards for his books. He was honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976 and received the Teach Freedom Award from President Ronald Reagan.
He founded the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, located in Los Angeles, in 1988. It now boasts 20,000 members and publishes four magazines, including Heterodoxy, a monthly magazine that focuses on political correctness and other follies
Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents
No full textSince antiquity, artists have visualized the known world through the female (sometimes male) body. In the age of exploration, America was added to figures of Europe, Asia, and Africa who would come to inhabit the borders of geographical visual imagery. In the abundance of personifications in print, painting, ceramics, tapestry, and sculpture, do portrayals vary between hierarchy and global human dignity? Are we witnessing the emergence of ethnography or of racism? Yet, as this volume shows, depictions of bodies as places betray the complexity of human claims and desires. Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents opens up questions about early modern politics, travel literature, sexualities, gender, processes of making, and the mobility of forms and motifs. Contributors are: Louise Arizzoli, Elisa Daniele, Hilary Haakenson, Elizabeth Horodowich, Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Ann Rosalind Jones, Paul H. D. Kaplan, Marion Romberg, Mark Rosen, Benjamin Schmidt, Chet Van Duzer, Bronwen Wilson, and Michael Wintle.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/libarts_book/1237/thumbnail.jp
Henri Temianka Correspondence; (horowitz)
No full textThis collection contains material pertaining to the life, career, and activities of Henri Temianka, violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher, and author. Materials include correspondence, concert programs and flyers, music scores, photographs, and books.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/temianka_correspondence/3625/thumbnail.jp
Portraits of the World. The Four Continents at Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola: The Figurative Code, Sources and Comparisons
No full textAmong the myriad allegories covering the Room of Maps in Palazzo Farnese, the four personified continents stand out around the vast world map. First of all the analysis focuses on their formal strategies of presentation and the vocabulary of attributes they adopt, borrowed from ancient Roman coinage, to investigate the reasons behind their classical-style robe and the ideological statement emerging from this adoption. This article aims to interpret the representation in relation to the patron’s communicational needs: indeed, the personifications are organically integrated with the various components of the hall to form a complex celebratory organism expressing the ideals of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese regarding his own temporal and spiritual role in the world and the role of the counter-reformed Church more broadly. In so doing, I also compare the figurative code deployed in the Room to the previous Camerino dei Continenti in Rome’s Palazzo Firenze and three lunettes in Rome’s Palazzo Ruggeri (1553 and 1591, respectively), outlining visual and semantic analogies. The Camerino offers an early representation of our theme brimming with mythological and erudite references - in the panel of the vault with Europa, Asia, and Africa - as well as exotic ones in the external ornamentation. Even the later lunettes depict an oecumene which is anachronistically still tripartite, though visually anchored in a recent source (i.e. the Theatrum orbis terrarum frontispiece). Starting from the main case-study and considering these less-studied frescoes, it is thus possible to delve into forms of confluence (intertwining or instances of resistance) between the world of antiquity and the world of geographic exploration, as displayed by each image, eventually shedding light on potential motivations and iconological implications
The Second Ku Klux Klan, White Nationalism, and the Advent of the Culture Wars
No full textPresentation from the Friendly House by David Horowitz who explores the ethnocentric and populist appeal of the 1920s Ku Klan Klan, a movement focusing on the perceived threat of recent immigrants. The discussion includes an analysis of the rhetoric of Klan leader Hiram Wesley Evans who pictured Protestant nationalists as helpless before the onslaught of immigrants. Horowitz has taught U. S. Cultural and Political History at Portland State University since 1968. He has many publications. He is the author of “Inside the Klavern: The Secret History of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s.
S.M. Dubnov’s Ideological Challenge in Emigration: Autonomism and Zionism, Europe and Palestine
No full textIn this paper author explores Semyon Dubnov’s position on Zionism and Diaspora Autonomism in the years after he left Soviet Russia in 1921. In particular Horowitz asserts that Dubnov must have been aware of the fact that his ideas were receiving their broadest application not in Eastern Europe, as he hoped, but in Palestine. The paper treats Dubnov’s reaction to this ideological challenge
Gastric motor function in health and diabetes: implications for incretin hormone release and postprandial blood glucose regulation.
No full textThis thesis focuses on gastric motor function in patients with longstanding diabetes, and the role of gastric emptying and gastrointestinal hormones in the regulation of glycaemia in health and patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Diabetes is a common chronic disorder worldwide, with the prevalence of type 2 diabetes escalating due to an increasingly sedentary lifestyle and rising rates of obesity. Diabetes is associated with micro- and macrovascular complications, particularly in the context of poor glycaemic control (1993, 1998). Another complication of type 1 and 2 diabetes is gastroparesis (Horowitz et al., 2001, Horowitz M, 1986, Horowitz et al., 1989, Horowitz et al., 1991) (delayed gastric emptying in diabetes) and there is limited information about the natural history and prognosis of this condition. While the prognosis of diabetic gastroparesis has been assumed to be poor, limited data in a small cohort followed for a mean period of 12 years suggest otherwise, with neither deterioration in the rate of gastric emptying (Jones et al., 2002) nor increased mortality due to the condition itself (Kong et al., 1999). The study reported in Chapter 3 evaluated the longitudinal progression of gastric emptying in patients with longstanding diabetes over a 25 year period to determine if there is a progressive slowing of gastric emptying or whether gastric emptying is relatively stable with a good prognosis from the outset, and to ascertain the potential impact of glycaemic control and/or autonomic function. The study concludes that gastric emptying and upper gastrointestinal symptoms are relatively stable over 25 years, while there was a deterioration in autonomic function and an improvement in glycaemic control. The study reported in Chapter 4 examined the prognosis of diabetic gastroparesis and its findings highlight that this condition is neither associated with a poor prognosis nor a higher rate of mortality. There is increasing recognition that glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c), which is a measure of overall glycaemic control, is influenced more by postprandial, rather than fasting, blood glucose levels in the majority of patients with type 2 diabetes. This makes intuitive sense, because the majority of one’s time is spent in a postprandial state, digesting the caloric load of the ingested meal, which in healthy subjects empties from the stomach in a tightly regulated process at a rate of 1-4kcal/minute (Khoo et al., 2009). Accordingly, good control of postprandial glucose excursions should be a priority for the treatment of diabetes. The rate of gastric emptying itself influences the magnitude of the initial rise in postprandial glycaemia in health as well as type 1 and 2 diabetes (Jones et al., 1996, Horowitz et al., 1993, Horowitz et al., 1986), whereby slower emptying is associated with diminished postprandial glucose excursions. The overall rate of gastric emptying is dependent on the integration of motor activity in each region of the stomach and slower gastric emptying is associated with suppression of antral and duodenal contractions, and stimulation of phasic and tonic pyloric pressures, with the latter acting as a brake to gastric outflow (Horowitz et al., 1994). When glucose is given by the oral/enteral route, the stimulation of insulin is markedly greater than with an isoglycaemic intravenous glucose infusion. This phenomenon is known as the ‘incretin effect’ and is mediated by the gastrointestinal hormones, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP), which are secreted from the small intestine in response to nutrients (Ma et al., 2009a). GLP-1 and GIP both stimulate insulin secretion from the pancreas in the setting of elevated blood glucose levels, and are responsible for ~70% of the postprandial insulin response in healthy humans (Horowitz and Nauck, 2006). GLP-1 analogues, such as exenatide, are now widely used in the management of type 2 diabetes, in whom the response to exogenous GIP is attenuated markedly (Holst and Gromada, 2004) but the insulin response to GLP-1 remains intact (Elahi et al., 1994). It appears that an important action of GLP-1 analogues in reducing postprandial glycaemia is by retardation of small intestinal motility modulating carbohydrate absorption (Linnebjerg et al., 2008, Little et al., 2006). An alternative to the use of exogenous GLP-1 analogues in the management of type 2 diabetes is to develop dietary strategies which stimulate endogenous GLP-1 release. Glutamine, which is widely used as a nutritional supplement, appears to be the most potent amino acid in inducing GLP-1 release (Reimann et al., 2004). It has been reported that 30g glutamine, given in 300mL water, stimulates GLP-1 release in both healthy subjects and patients with type 2 diabetes (Greenfield et al., 2009) and Samocha-Bonet et al (Samocha-Bonet et al., 2011) reported that 15g and 30g glutamine when given as a drink, before an oral glucose load in patients with type 2 diabetes, dose-dependently stimulate GLP-1 and diminish subsequent glycaemic excursion. However, the effect of glutamine on the rate of gastric emptying of glucose could potentially influence the observed effect on glycaemia as it is now appreciated that the rate of gastric emptying itself has a major influence on postprandial glucose levels in healthy subjects and patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes (Chang et al., 2010). The study reported in Chapter 5 examined the effects of intraduodenal glutamine on GLP-1, GIP and insulin release and the subsequent glycaemic response to an intraduodenal glucose load, in health and type 2 diabetes, of which the intraduodenal route of delivery of glutamine will bypass the stomach, thus, eliminating any influence of glutamine on the rate of gastric emptying of glucose. This study showed that intraduodenal glutamine has minimal effect on the glycaemic response to intraduodenal glucose, despite its ability to stimulate GLP-1, GIP and insulin release, and stimulate phasic pyloric contractions, suggesting that slowing of gastric emptying may play a major role for the glucose lowering effect seen with oral glutamine.Thesis (M.Phil.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Medicine, 201
S.M. Dubnov’s Ideological Challenge in Emigration: Autonomism and Zionism, Europe and Palestine
No full textIn this paper author explores Semyon Dubnov’s position on Zionism and Diaspora Autonomism in the years after he left Soviet Russia in 1921. In particular Horowitz asserts that Dubnov must have been aware of the fact that his ideas were receiving their broadest application not in Eastern Europe, as he hoped, but in Palestine. The paper treats Dubnov’s reaction to this ideological challenge
A democratic South Africa?: constitutional engineering in a divided society
No full textCan a society as deeply divided as South Africa become democratic? In a most timely work, Donald L. Horowitz, author of the acclaimed Ethnic Groups in Conflict , points to the conditions that make democracy an improbable outcome in South Africa. At the same time, he identifies ways to overcome these obstacles, and he describes institutions that offer constitution makers the best chance for a democratic future.South Africa is generally considered an isolated case, a country unlike any other. Drawing on his extensive experience of racially and ethnically divided societies, however, Horowitz brings South Africa back into African and comparative politics. Experience gained in Nigeria, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and other divided societies around the world is relevant because, as South Africa leaves apartheid behind, it will still confront problems of pluralism: racial, ethnic, and ideological. Countries like South Africa, Horowitz argues, must develop institutions capable of coping with such divisions.Reviewing an array of constitutional proposals for South Africa - group rights, consociation, partition, binationalism, and an enhanced role for the judiciary - Horowitz shows that most are inappropriate for the country's problems, or else run afoul of some major ideological taboo. Institutions that are both apt and acceptable do exist, however. These are premised on the need to create incentives for accommodation across group lines. In the final chapter, Horowitz makes a major contribution to the theory of democratization as he considers how commitments to democracy might be extracted even from political groups with undemocratic objectives.Ranging skillfully across studies of social distance and stereotypes, electoral and party systems, constitutions and judiciaries, conflict and accommodation, and negotiation and democratization, Horowitz displays a broad comparative vision. His innovative study will change the way theorists and practitioners approach the task of making democracy work in difficult conditions
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